Well, just remember–all your misery will be waiting for you at the door upon your exit, should you care to pick it up again when you leave.
ELIZABETH GILBERTDevotion is diligence without assurance. If faith were rational, it wouldn’t be by definition faith. Faith is walking face-first and full speed into the dark.
More Elizabeth Gilbert Quotes
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Never forget that once upon a time, in an unguarded moment, you recognized yourself as a friend.
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Sometimes beauty needs a bit of ignoring, to properly come into being.
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I never promised the universe that I would write brilliantly; I only promised the universe that I would write.
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Devotion is diligence without assurance. If faith were rational, it wouldn’t be by definition faith. Faith is walking face-first and full speed into the dark.
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Desperate love is always the toughest way to do it.
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Everything really is going to be okay. (And if not okay, then at least comic.)
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In desperate love, we always invent the characters of our partners, demanding they be what we need of them, and then feeling devastated when they refuse to perform the role we created in the first place.
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Balance is not letting anyone love you less than you love yourself.
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If Todd [Willingham] was guilty of anything, it was just his self-preservation. He got up and ran out of the house and then thought about the children after the fact.
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Mistakes will be made. Failure will occur. You pick yourself up and carry on.
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If we never leave our house except to drive to work, do we need to be even remotely aware of this powerful, humbling, extraordinary and eternal life force that surges and ebbs around us all the time? Apparently not. Because we have stopped paying attention.
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A man that can cook you a proper meal that is like a weekday meal – which I think cannot be better than in the form of a roast chicken – that’s the greatest.
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My life acccomplishments? Sanity, and you
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Om Namah Shivaya, meaning, I honor the divinity that resides within me.
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Learning how to discipline your speech is a way of preventing your energies from spilling out of you through the rupture of your mouth, exhausting you and filling the world with words, words, words instead of serenity, peace and bliss.
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